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Devil's Thumb Ranch

Check out the November 2014 issue of 5280 magazine—on newsstands now.
Flight Plan | The holidays are filled with family, festivities, and—if you’re one of the estimated five million people passing through Denver International Airport this season—flights. Save your headaches for dinner...

Why we love it: Perfectly groomed trails and a restaurant with beer to warm me up after a workout.
When to go: Now. There’s not a lot of snowpack, so the skiing is storm-to-storm.
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One of the things I appreciate about Nordic skiing is that it lacks the “fuss” of downhill skiing....

I’m usually a one water-bottle bike ride kind of girl, which means the stakes are low, the climbs aren’t too high, and it’s a 15-minute rescue for my boyfriend if something breaks down (including me). So, when I was invited on a group bike trip that involved 150 miles of riding with 8,000 feet of...